Book Club Edition, first printing and true first edition. First printing with Code "M40" on page 184 and Code 1871 on rear jacket panel. (The Science Fiction Book Club edition preceded the Bantam paperback edition published in 1982.) Not a remainder or ex-library copy. One jacket tear-out (2 cm x 1 cm in size) on lower edge of rear jacket panel near spine with adjacent closed, but jagged tear 1 cm x 2 in size at the lower edge of spine panel. Faint soiling to top edge of page block. Aside from these defects a square, straight copy without clipping. Full color, wrap-around jacket painting by Freff.